ELT Calendar

Sunday, July 10th, 2016

Let's get physical: The brain/body connection in the EFL classroom.
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Marc Helgesen (Miyagi Gakuen Women's University)
Organization: NanKyu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: This session will look at brain-science reasons and ways to have students moving their bodies, while moving their English abilities up at the same time.

More Talking, Less Drilling: Developing Tasks with Communicative Intent
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Brett Walter (Hiroshima University)
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: In a language classroom, tasks are often developed that are little more than drills, having students repeat the same phrase multiple times while only replacing one or two key vocabulary words and drilling only for the sake of drilling.